Really sorry to hear about this state brutality that too against a distinguished senior citizen of repute.

Please accept our moral and literary support for your noble cause.We in Quetta are here to support you but at the same time regret our absence to join you physically in lahore. Nevertheless our heart and mind will be there.

Dear all, The police brutality committed against innocent citizens, apart from the brutality against my son Mahmood Rahman and myself, (Read below mail and DT report of 3rd September and follow up story) we the Human Rights Defenders would request all to join us in a sustained campaign using this incident as a marker to highlight that no one is safe from police brutality no matter what your standing in society may be. If this can happen to me and my family imagine what happens to the ordinary citizen who have no powerful or social contacts.

As a first step we have planned to hold a protest meeting at Liberty Roundabout on Sunday 9th September at 5 pm. We would like to request all to mobilize as many people as possible because if you continue to shrug this inhuman attitude off as if you would never face such State brutality you will only be encouraging them to continue.

LAHORE: Interrogation of the interrogators on Monday has exposed the real face of the Punjab Police rankers before the seniors regarding their tactics to fix fake charges on innocent citizens, especially in the case of the brutal torture of blameless victims of the DHA police, namely Asad Rahman and Mahmood Rahman.

Superintendent Police Cantt (SP Cantt) Maroof Wahla, after conducting an inquiry, suspended a police officer (Sub-Inspector Shabbir Raza) of the Defence Police Station-B after finding him guilty of using false statements against innocent citizens Asad Rahman and Mahmood Rahman for involving them in a case of a car accident.

On last Saturday evening, police personnel under the command of Sub-Inspector Shabbih Raza brutally beat up 60-year-old Asad Rahman, the younger brother of Daily Times Editor Rashed Rahman as well as his nephew Mahmood Rahman without reason or provocation after a road accident near their residence in DHA.

During the inquiry into the police officers' involvement in brutal torture of Asad Rahman and his son Mahmood Rahman, the SP Cantt found many contradictions in their statements regarding handling the situation and the treatment meted out to father and son, who were trying to rescue the rickshaw driver injured in the accident.

On a query, SI Shabbir told the SP that he had taken the injured rickshaw driver to National Hospital, Defence, personally and admitted him in the Emergency Ward and later when he approached the hospital administration, they informed him that the patient had been shifted to General Hospital. It was interesting that when the SP asked him about the hospital admission slip, he failed to provide any proof of either the admission slip of the National Hospital emergency ward or the admission slip of the General Hospital in his support of the 'fake' statement.

Replying to different queries of the SP, he (SI) also claimed that he had arrested Mr Asad on some people's claim that 'this old man has hit the rickshaw' and then he offered Mr Asad to reach the police station in his own car but when he refused, he picked him up with his son and put them in the police vehicle. When he was asked about the reason for the beating to them, he become speechless, as he had no explanation for the serious injuries on their bodies.

The SP Cantt also held separate inquiries into the role of the other four police team members involved in this incident and all of them gave different and contradictory answers to the same questions put to them. To prove themselves justified in arresting and thrashing innocent citizens, one of the constables appeared before the SP with a bandage and blood signs on his hand, but when the SP had him remove the bandage, his lie was exposed.

Earlier, the SP Cantt ascertained the facts personally from victims Asad Rahman and Mahmood Rahman, who appeared in his office along with Daily Times Editor Rashed Rahman and informed him that they had no link to the accident but had tried to help the injured rickshaw driver. The police officers wrongly involved them in the case and tortured them.

After ascertaining the true facts, the SP immediately suspended the SI Shabbih Raza and warned the constables in future to be careful not to involve innocent citizens in cases and avoid false statements. He also assured the victims that they should lodge an FIR against torture on them and he would pursue the case in person. The victims had their medico-legal reports regarding the injuries conducted but the FIR was not registered in the concerned police station till the filing of this report.

It is pertinent to mention here that there was no record of admission of any injured rickshaw driver in the National Hospital, General Hospital, Services Hospital, Mayo Hospital or Jinnah Hospital. According to the administration of all these hospitals, they had not admitted any injured person in emergency or general wards from the DHA police in their respective hospitals.

There is another serious concern that on Monday evening a policeman claiming to be SI Sharif along with some other persons in plainclothes approached the victims' house on private motorcycles. They tried to inquire about the incident all over again but when they were informed that the SP Cantt Maroof Wahla had already suspended the SI for his inhuman treatment of the innocent victims, they ran away from the scene. The victims' family has informed the SP about the fresh act of harassment by the policemen.

EDITORIAL : Police brutality

Our story on police brutality the other day reflects the culture and practices of our police force ('DT Editor's brother, nephew innocent victims of police brutality', Daily Times, September 3, 2012). The police detail that brutally beat up Mr Asad Rahman and his son Mahmood Rahman without cause was imbued with the same arrogance of untrammelled power that their uniform provides. Was the incident an aberration, a one-off happening that could be attributed to one officer and his subordinates' lack of civility, proper legal and police procedure, etc? Or was it typical of the manner in which our police approaches its duties? The police has yet to be transformed from the culture that underlined its origins as a colonial force charged with keeping their imperialist masters' interests uppermost. This implied, as the reverse side of the coin, utmost contempt for the lowly 'natives'. Those attitudes still permeate the ranks of a force that has no truck or patience with notions of citizens' rights or confining the actions of the police within the parameters of the law. Of course, like any large body of (overwhelmingly) men, it is not monolithic. Fine people can be found within its fold, especially in the officer corps. However, it has to be stated with regret that such individuals are exceptions to the rule.

The colonial force, to ensure it remained within control, was under the supervision of an executive magistracy. The colonialists were wise enough to know that if the force was not put on a leash, there was a risk of it using disproportionate force against the increasingly restive natives, which would have political repercussions. Unfortunately, despite independence, the 'control' mechanism over the police became 'loose' to serve the interests of the successive authoritarian and dictatorial regimes in our history. To top it all, Musharraf's 'Plato', General Naqvi, amongst his other half-baked reforms, authored the concept of 'autonomy' for the police by abolishing the executive magistracy, that thin fig leaf of control, and helped institute the Police Order 2002 to grant the police what turned out in practice to be untrammelled and unaccountable power. The result since then has been to see the police turning into a monster off the leash. The normal site of the interface between the citizen and the police, the thana (police station), is a place that evokes quaking fear amongst the populace. Torture, violence, form the normal 'interrogation' techniques of the force. That leads to the attitude that led to the incident mentioned above, where the police is inclined to resort to violence first and ask questions later. A brutal, corrupt police force is not only a terror for the citizen, there are any number of legends and stories to prove that it is also the biggest criminal force in the country. One version has it that no serious crime can be committed in our society without the trail leading eventually to the police. Unfortunately, for all the palaver about reform of the police over many years, no government has felt it necessary to get to the root of the problem. The police therefore feels free to carry on business as usual. The losers in this respect are the citizen and any notion of a rules- or law-based state and society.

It is time the political forces, civil society, the legal fraternity and all those who care for this country raised their voice against a police that is not only unable to curb crime, arguably it is the biggest factor in the growth of lawlessness. And that is not even to mention its inability to do anything meaningful against the threat of terrorism that afflicts state and society today. Our overactive judiciary has its hands full with everything except the demands of providing justice to the citizen and upholding his rights enshrined in the constitution and law and underpinning any modern civilised society. Unless a debate is conducted on the failings and sins of omission and commission of the police by society at large, there can be no hope for a rights-based dispensation that puts the citizen centre-stage and can then justly claim the title of a democracy. *

FRIEND OF OURS BECAME VERY SICK AFTER DRINKING WATER LEFT IN A CAR OVERNIGHT (NOT CANCER) BUT SHE WAS ILL FOR A COUPLE OF MONTH. Bottled water in your car is very dangerous! On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her breast cancer. It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue..

Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: _WOMEN SHOULD NOT DRINK BOTTLED WATER THAT HAS BEEN LEFT IN A CAR._ The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle which releases dioxin into the water. Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

Pass this on to all the women in your life. This information is the kind we need to know that just might save us!

Use a stainless steel canteen or a glass bottle instead of plastic!

LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE / DAUGHTER KNOW PLEASE THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO BEING CIRCULATED AT WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER ... No plastic containers in microwaves. No plastic water bottles in freezers. No plastic wrap in microwaves.

Dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to cells in our bodies. Don't freeze plastic BOTTLES WITH WATER IN THEM AS THIS RELEASES DIOXINS FROM THE PLASTIC.

Recently the Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.

He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. HE SAID THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE HEATING FOOD IN THE MICROWAVE USING PLASTIC CONTAINERS..... This especially applies to foods that contain fat.

He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastic releases dioxin into THE FOOD.

Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food... You get the same result, but without the dioxin..

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